| Saturday night under the lights, the Car of Tomorrow | | | | you ask me, the best CoT team so far has been Joe |
| gets its first shot at a track longer than a half-mile. | | | | Gibbs Racing. They clearly invested a lot of dough in |
| However, the one-mile Phoenix International | | | | these puppies, and it's showing. We'll see if that trend |
| Raceway is so shallowly banked -- 11 and nine | | | | continues Saturday night. |
| degrees in the turns -- that it drives like a smaller | | | | Last Week: It was a frustrating day deep in the |
| track than it is. In fact, the heavy-braking, flat track | | | | heart of Texas, as our two primary picks, Johnson |
| is an awful lot like Martinsville, where the Smokeless | | | | and Stewart, suffered wrecks at the hands of other, |
| Set ran just a few weeks ago in these very same | | | | less speedy drivers. Jeff Burton won the event and |
| CoTs. How very convenient. | | | | looked great doing it; he's going to be a threat at a |
| Who's been strongest in the CoT so far? Well, the | | | | whole lot of races this summer. Anyway, it was a |
| temptation is to say Hendrick Motorsports. Kyle | | | | lost day, which means 1.5 units down the tubes. |
| Busch won at Bristol, and Jimmie Johnson won at | | | | Fortunately, we're still up 1.87 units on the season, on |
| Martinsville, with Jeff Gordon hot on his tail. But those | | | | 10.5 units wagered, for a 17.8% return. (If you scrap |
| results don't tell the whole story. Tony Stewart easily | | | | the conservative betting system outlined below and |
| had the best car at Bristol, and only a fluky | | | | simply bet one unit per wager, you'd be up 16.67 |
| mechanical problem that had nothing to do with the | | | | units so far this year on 28 units wagered, for a |
| CoT itself caused him to lose. At Martinsville, Dale | | | | 59.5% return. Of course, there's a lot more risk on a |
| Earnhardt Jr. led the most laps and Stewart's | | | | weekly basis with that system; for instance, you'd |
| teammate, Denny Hamlin, led the second-most. If | | | | have dropped four units last week. |